picked from thestar.com.my Monday December 14, 2009
Cyclist hits out after being dumped from road race
AFTER giving up a full-time job to train on his own, road cyclist Loh Sea Keong arrived in Vientiane eyeing a shot at SEA Games glory. But he has ended up as a tourist instead.
Sea Keong was only informed on Saturday evening that he would not start in the men’s road race scheduled for today.
Road cyclist Loh Sea Keong
“They flicked me at the last minute. They had a meeting just one day before the start of competitions today and then informed me that I will not be on the start list for the road race,” he said yesterday.
“They took Mohd Razif Salleh, who was supposed to do the road time trial, to replace me.”
And the cruel decision not to inform him earlier has left much bitterness in him.
“They had already planned not to include me and could have told me about it so that I don’t have to waste my time and effort to come all the way here,”said Sea Keong, who had trained on his own in Kelantan.
“I heard some rumours that I will not get to compete in the road race. And I was in two minds about coming to Laos. But I won a selection race in October in which they said that the top two riders would get in automatically.
“I had already quit my job back home to train full-time on my own expenses without any salary or support from anyone. And I did not want to waste the effort that I have put in by not coming here.”
Sea Keong, who was dropped from the national team programme six months ago, added that he could not understand the rationale for dropping him from the race.
“They said that I did not have good results for the past six months but what about the rider who replaced me. Did he have any good results for the past six months? I’m even curious whether he has any good results for the last five years.
“And then, why did they bother to have the selection race in the first place.”
Sea Keong said that he would be most surprised if Malaysia did well in the event.
“The coaches and managers don’t even care about showing us the race course for time trial or road race. They just bring the cyclists to ride on one of the highways in Vientiane. This is really bad planning,” he said in annoyance.
Malaysia finished out of the medals in the individual road time trial yesterday.
Ng Yong Li, the only Malaysian in the fray after Razif was moved to the road race, finished sixth in the men’s 40km race.
In the women’s 30km race, Mariana Mohamad and Nor Azian Alias were placed seventh and ninth respectively.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
A vote for Pakatan is a vote against corruption
by Thomas Lee
The Bagan Pinang by-election on Oct 11 is an opportunity for the voters to tell the Braisan Nasional in no uncertain term that the practice of corruption and cronyism must be wiped out in the country. They must go all out to ensure the defeat of the Umno candidate.
By fielding a candidate suspended by his own party for corrupt practice, the Barisan Nasional is obviously snubbing the people, indicating that it couldn’t care less about what they think and feel. It is a de facto endorsement of corrupt practices.
By nominating such a tainted candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election, the purported high moral ground on which the Umno leaders have been self-righteously proclaiming has been exposed as a mere hollow sinking ground.
Umno is arrogantly confident and cocksure that it will win the Bagan Pinang battle even with a corruption-contaminated candidate.
The voters of Bagan Pinang must come out in full force to show Umno through the ballot box that the days of its exaggerated sense of superiority are numbered.
It is time the Barisan Nasional be told that:
– it cannot simply grab power by unethical and illegal means, like what had happened in Perak;
– it cannot simply use oppressive laws like the ISA to silence its critics, opposition leaders and the freedom and human right crusaders;
– it cannot simply use harsh enforcement on peaceful unarmed demonstrators and candlelight protestors;
– it cannot simply change the education system at its whims and fancy every other few years, causing confusion among the teachers, parents and students, and creating chaos in the schooling system;
– it cannot simply continue to control and manipulate the press and mass media to promote its own causes, and to run down the opposition and critics;
– it cannot simply allow the corrupt political leaders to go unpunished, especially those using public funds for private holidays to Disneyland and those living beyond their means in great luxury in multi-million ringgit mansions;
– it cannot simply allow investigation into the mysterious death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock to be frustrated by attempts to prevent relevant persons from testifying;
– it cannot simply cover up scandals involving public projects such the PKFZ issue.
Will the voters of Bagan Pinang take the lead and send the message to Umno and the Barisan Nasional that “Enough is Enough” and it’s “Time for Change”?
picked from http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/10/03/a-vote-for-pakatan-is-a-vote-against-corruption/#more-6183
The Bagan Pinang by-election on Oct 11 is an opportunity for the voters to tell the Braisan Nasional in no uncertain term that the practice of corruption and cronyism must be wiped out in the country. They must go all out to ensure the defeat of the Umno candidate.
By fielding a candidate suspended by his own party for corrupt practice, the Barisan Nasional is obviously snubbing the people, indicating that it couldn’t care less about what they think and feel. It is a de facto endorsement of corrupt practices.
By nominating such a tainted candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election, the purported high moral ground on which the Umno leaders have been self-righteously proclaiming has been exposed as a mere hollow sinking ground.
Umno is arrogantly confident and cocksure that it will win the Bagan Pinang battle even with a corruption-contaminated candidate.
The voters of Bagan Pinang must come out in full force to show Umno through the ballot box that the days of its exaggerated sense of superiority are numbered.
It is time the Barisan Nasional be told that:
– it cannot simply grab power by unethical and illegal means, like what had happened in Perak;
– it cannot simply use oppressive laws like the ISA to silence its critics, opposition leaders and the freedom and human right crusaders;
– it cannot simply use harsh enforcement on peaceful unarmed demonstrators and candlelight protestors;
– it cannot simply change the education system at its whims and fancy every other few years, causing confusion among the teachers, parents and students, and creating chaos in the schooling system;
– it cannot simply continue to control and manipulate the press and mass media to promote its own causes, and to run down the opposition and critics;
– it cannot simply allow the corrupt political leaders to go unpunished, especially those using public funds for private holidays to Disneyland and those living beyond their means in great luxury in multi-million ringgit mansions;
– it cannot simply allow investigation into the mysterious death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock to be frustrated by attempts to prevent relevant persons from testifying;
– it cannot simply cover up scandals involving public projects such the PKFZ issue.
Will the voters of Bagan Pinang take the lead and send the message to Umno and the Barisan Nasional that “Enough is Enough” and it’s “Time for Change”?
picked from http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/10/03/a-vote-for-pakatan-is-a-vote-against-corruption/#more-6183
Friday, May 22, 2009
Mother of all Joke!!
I just couldn't believe myself when a so-called leader suggested that students should limit the subject so that it will look fairer to students who were rejected scholarship despite better achievement!
What is in his brain??
Why don't he try to talk to Ferrari to slow down their cars so that Proton may over-take them???!!!
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
120 HOURS......
120 Hours = 5 Days
120 Hours = 12 Trips from Ipoh - JB - to and fro Non-Stop
120 Hours = You may drive non-stop from Ipoh via Bangkok via Mae Sai through the opium fields into Yunnan, China.
120 Hours = You may fly from Ipoh (if there is flight) to Subang, 120 times!!
120 Hours = 15 working days (8 hours per day)
120 Hours = 7200 minutes = 432,000 seconds
120 Hours = Legitimate Perak MB Nizar need to wait for Perakian hearing of stay of execution
But our Pangkor Pele-Mandela-Gandhi-Luther King took ONLY 12 HOURS for Court of Appeal for stay of execution!
Truly Malaysia! Bersih, Cekap dan Amanah!
120 Hours = 12 Trips from Ipoh - JB - to and fro Non-Stop
120 Hours = You may drive non-stop from Ipoh via Bangkok via Mae Sai through the opium fields into Yunnan, China.
120 Hours = You may fly from Ipoh (if there is flight) to Subang, 120 times!!
120 Hours = 15 working days (8 hours per day)
120 Hours = 7200 minutes = 432,000 seconds
120 Hours = Legitimate Perak MB Nizar need to wait for Perakian hearing of stay of execution
But our Pangkor Pele-Mandela-Gandhi-Luther King took ONLY 12 HOURS for Court of Appeal for stay of execution!
Truly Malaysia! Bersih, Cekap dan Amanah!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Me, Nelson & Gandhi........
I love both these great man!
Both of them, sacrificed themselves for freedom and rights.....
Both of them are inspiration for many wannabe......
.... but how many of these wannabe may come even close to be as great as both, these great human...
... anyhow... the only similarity between me and these great man are....
.... that we do stand up when we piss!!!
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Both of them, sacrificed themselves for freedom and rights.....
Both of them are inspiration for many wannabe......
.... but how many of these wannabe may come even close to be as great as both, these great human...
... anyhow... the only similarity between me and these great man are....
.... that we do stand up when we piss!!!
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
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